Official Summaries

Veterans Education Transparency and Training Act or the VETT Act

This bill modifies the approval process for certain courses of education for purposes of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) educational assistance benefits.

Under current law, educational institutions must provide a personalized form to an individual with certain information (e.g., cost, financial aid, and graduation and job placement rates) prior to enrollment in a course, otherwise such institutions may be subject to certain disciplinary action from the VA or state approving agency. The bill provides that if an educational institution cannot provide the required personalized form to an individual prior to enrollment, the institution must provide notice that specifies which information in the form may be inaccurate or incomplete and the best estimate available for such information.

The bill requires the VA to establish and regularly update a website to serve as a central location for information about training for school certifying officials regarding VA educational benefits.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 981 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 981


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 10, 2025

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the processes to 
     approve programs of education for purposes of the educational 
  assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Education Transparency and 
Training Act'' or the ``VETT Act''.

SEC. 2. PROCESSES TO APPROVE PROGRAMS OF EDUCATION FOR PURPOSES OF THE 
              EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) Limitation of Disapproval of Programs of Education for Failure 
To Provide Certain Forms.--Section 3679(f)(5) of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``this paragraph'' and 
        inserting ``this subparagraph'';
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``this paragraph'' and 
        inserting ``subparagraph (A)''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
    ``(C) If an educational institution cannot provide to an individual 
a form under paragraph (1) that contains all of the information 
required under subparagraph (A) of such paragraph, the educational 
institution shall provide to such individual, with the form under such 
paragraph, a notice--
            ``(i) that specifies what such information may be 
        inaccurate or incomplete; and
            ``(ii) that includes, in place of the information that may 
        be inaccurate or incomplete, the best estimate available on the 
        date of such notice.''.
    (b) Publication of Information About Training for School Certifying 
Officials.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall establish a website 
to serve as a central location for the publication of information about 
the training that the Department of Veterans Affairs provides for 
school certifying officials and shall update such information on a 
regular basis.

            Passed the House of Representatives April 9, 2025.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.